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Patently Absurd
Despite world-class universities and a strong science base, Britain produces fewer patents per person than most major economies. More concerning still, innovation in Britain is declining at the same time as it is accelerating in other global markets.
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Britain Resurgent
In 1950, despite all the strains of the aftermath of a world war, the British people enjoyed the seventh highest living standard of major developed nations.
Alarm over A Levels
Very many people concerned with education look with alarm at the threat to educational standards at A-level.
To Spur, not to Mould
For as long as I can remember concern about our economic progress, compared with that of our competitors, has been the staple diet of both politicians and commentators.
The Wealthy Wellfairs
Humphery Wellfair had, during the long minutes his parachute swayed down to the desert atoll in 1944 been blissfully filled with thoughts of Beveridge, promising idyllic security from cradle to grave, at least in Britain.
The Unfinished Task
In a recent television programme about the post war reconstruction of Britain, a film clip was shown of Herbert Morrison addressing the Durham Miners rally on behalf of the Labour government.
The New Capitalism
The ideal of widespread personal ownership as a central goal of social policy has been persistently advocated over the years by a handful of politicians and one or two economists, and as persistently ignored by almost everybody else.
The EC & the Task for the British Presidency in 1986
On 1 July Britain begins her third stint as President of the European Community’s Council of Ministers.
Shares for All
Share ownership is enjoying something of a renaissance. There are many more people today with a direct share in the risk capital of British industry and commerce than there were five years ago.
NHS The Road to Recovery
The National Health Service is sick, but not so sick that it cannot be put on the road to recovery. Injecting more taxpayers’ money into the enterprise will not help. Spending must be made more effective, and accountability must be improved.
Mr Gorbachevs own Star Wars
It is comprehensible why many rational, averagely informed people, in the United States as well as in Europe, should be, to begin with, sceptical of President Reagan’s programme of research on strategic defence.
Morality and Markets
I am speaking here at St Georges house Windsor not as an amateur theologian but as a professional economist concerned with moral values.
Every Adult a Share-Owner
Suppose that every adult in Britain acquired £100 worth of shares in some British Company/ Suppose that, apart from undertaking not to transfer those shares for five years, each adult enjoyed all the rights of a shareholder.
Equity for Everyman
The industrial revolution brought many blessings. It brought greater output. It freed many people working on the land and brought them many new homes, new products and new luxuries.
Employment Examined
The Department of Employment should supply monthly data for the number in work in Britain as well as the number out of work.
Distant Views
When a proposition has become universally acceptable to political commentators, writers of letters to MPs, media pundits and school-teachers taking current affairs classes, it is a very likely indication hat the proposition in question is, or has become, false.
Business Still Burdened
We look to small businesses and the self-employed to produce growth, employment and wealth. In Britain today about six million people work for small firms.
